Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 3
In summer she always wore the same straw hat, and I verily believe the very same gray-blue dress.
Who acts: Moon, I · What happens: wear, believe · To what, where: same straw hat, same blue dress
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 summer | case |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 wore | advmod |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hat | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hat | amod |
| 8 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hat | compound |
| 9 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 believe | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 14 believe | advmod |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wore | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dress | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 same | advmod |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dress | amod |
| 18 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blue | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 gray | punct |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dress | amod |
| 21 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 believe | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Moon | the same straw hat | summer | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||
| 2 | believe | present | I | the same blue dress | verily property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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